trotskys twin wrote:
Nice piece mush but it dont put the ball in the net does it whats your solution to these issues you will know mine get unionised control the politicians NOW and yours
Half the issues raised in the article concern globalisation - sadly this isn't something a taxi association or union can readily solve - particularly bearing in mind your union funds the party that is partially responsible for the mess we're currently in.
Its quite interesting - the PM is in India this week - a radio 5 live story told of how foreign labour wasn't allowed a job in India unless the company could prove there was no one local that could do the job.
Its quite ironic - if we tried that in the UK we'd be called racist and anti free market and whatever else.
The facts seem to revolve around who benefits from the excess labour pool - it certainly isn't the local labour force. Indeed, today it was announced that employment was actually at record levels - employers will give a person 16 hours paid labour and expect the state to top up the earnings with family credits - in effect a company can easily cover hours with numerous employees and know the state will effectively top up wages.
Indeed - because employees sign 16 hour agreements - they will be doing these hours knowing they're going to get overtime - yet things like holiday pay etc revolve around the 16 hour agreement and not the actual hours they are doing.
And before you start blaming the nasty tories and nasty liberals - all this came about through your union backed labour party - who seem to have forgotten their roots because they sold out to the people who filled the labour party bank account.
Little wonder the Scots want to f*ck off - because I don't blame them, I'd do the same myself.